Wire fence.



No. 790,725, PATENTED MAY 23,l 1905.

J. E. EEEDEIGK.

WIRE FENCE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 20, 1901.

UNITED STATES JOHN Patented May 23, 1905.

PATENT OEEICE.

E. FREDRICK, OF KOKOMO, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO KOKOMO RATION.

WIRE FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 790,725, dated May 23, 1905. Application filed September Z0, 1901. Serial No. 75,874.

l, fences of the woven-wire class composed ordinarily of horizontal strand-wires and connecting mesh-wires, with the 1f1esh-wires interwoven on the strand-wires to form a diamond mesh. It has been found in practice that wire fences of this description are open to the objection that the expansion and contraction of the wires operate to injure the fence as to appearance and stability; and the object of this invention is to remedy and overcome this objection by providing the wires with crimps or bends at intervals apart in both the strand and woof wires, which bends or crimps permit of expansion and contraction of the wires without injurious effects; and the invention consists in the features of construction and combination ofparts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings illustrating the invention, Figure 1 is an elevation of a section or portion ofa woven-wire fence composed of horizontal strandwires and diagonal woof or mesh wires; Fig. 2, a section on line 2 of Fig. 1, showing the manner of bending or crimping the woof or mesh wires; and Fig. 3, a view showing the manner of crimping or bending the horizontal strand-wires.

The fence is formed of any desired number of horizontal strandwires A, connected each with the other by diagonally-running woof or mesh wires B, which woof or mesh wires are run in such relation one to the other as to produce diamond meshes for the fence. The

. woof or mesh wires are attached to the upper and lower strand-wires by coils a of the woof or mesh wires wound around the strandwires, and the woof or mesh wires are attached to the intermediate strand-wires and to each other at the juncture by coils b around the strand-wires, and such attachment of the woof or mesh wires is made in any usual and well-known manner.

The horizontal strand-wires are each provided with crimps or bends c at regular intervals apart and of a sufficient curvature for eX- pansion and contraction of the wires, and the mesh-wires are each provided with crimps or bends d of sufficient curvature for the expansion and contraction of the wires. The crimps or bends of the strand-wires and of the woof or mesh wires are preferably ar ranged in line, so that a series of crimps or bends will extend from the top to the bottom of the fence in the same vertical plane, and these crimps or bends can be made as the fence is formed or otherwise. The crimps or bends should have a sufficient curvature an be in such relation one to the other in the strand and woof or mesh wires as that the eX- pansion and contraction of the strand-wires or the woof or mesh wireswill be taken up or provided for by the crimps or bends and the fabric held under such tension that the eX- pansion or contraction will not operate to injure the appearance and stability of the fence. In the diamond mesh the strand-wires form the diagonals and the mesh-wires the sides of each of the diamonds. It is obvious that the two sides of any diamond are longer than the diagonals thereof, and in consequence of this it follows that these two sides will expand and contract to a greater degree than the strandwires alone. To meet this expansion and contraction, it is desirable that the crimps in the mesh-wires should be longer than the corresponding crimps in the strand-wires. By vertically alining the crimps in the strand and mesh wires the strand-wires will be crimped directly across their body and the mesh-wires will be crimped on a diagonal or bias, thereby increasing the length of the crimp in direct proportion to the increased length of the mesh-wires over the strandwires. As a result of this proportionate crimping the contraction and expansion of the two sets of wires will be uniform and prowires uncrimped on each side of and adjacent to tliecoils and crimps of the wires for permitting the expansion and contraction of each section of the wires between the coiling-points without injurious eects on the fabric as a whole, substantially as described.

2. A wire-fence fabricl comprising a series of plain horizontal strand-wires and a series of plain diagonal mesh-wires with the meshwires coiled around the strand-wires at regular intervals and having in the strand-wires and in the mesh-wires alining crimps crosswise of the fabric with spaces between the crimps longitudinallyof the fabric and formed in the portions of the wires intermediate of the co ing of the mesh-wires around the strand-wires, giving each section of the mesh-wires a single crimp and each section of the strand-wires two crimps between the coilinU-points, leaving both the mesh and strand wires uncrimped on each side of and adj acentY to the coils and crimps of the wires, thereby allowing of proportionate expansion and contraction of the strand and mesh wires under continued tension without injurious effects, substantially as described.

3. In a wire-fence fabric of diamond formation, the combination of plain horizontal of the wires, and having the coils of the mesh? wires around thestrand-wires free of crimps, thereby permitting of the independent eX- pansion and contraction of each section of the wires under continuous tension without warping or injuring the fabric, substantially as described. v

JOHN E. FREDRICK. Witnesses: y EDWARD Fox, S. S. SHAMBAUGH. 

